#FolkloreSunday: #Samhain is the #Celtic holiday most observed today, for it has become the children’s holiday of Hallowe’en, celebrated with decorations, costumes and pranks.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

#FolkloreSunday: #Samhain is the #Celtic holiday most observed today, for it has become the children’s holiday of Hallowe’en, celebrated with decorations, costumes and pranks.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

#FolkloreSunday: The #Celts saw darkness as preceding light, both in the diurnal and the annual cycle. Thus a day began at sundown. #Samhain began on the evening of October 31, which we now call Hallowe’en or the “hallowed evening.”
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#FolkloreSunday: The #Celts saw darkness as preceding light, both in the diurnal and the annual cycle. Thus a day began at sundown. #Samhain began on the evening of October 31, which we now call Hallowe’en or the “hallowed evening.”
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic Mythology & Folklore`

In Irish folklore, Stingy Jack was a treacherous rogue who imprisoned Satan to force him to swear to never take Jack's soul. However, Jack's sins barred him from Heaven when he died. Thus, his ghost wanders the Earth forever, carrying his lantern. Now he's known as Jack o' Lantern.
#FolkloreSunday

Jack was a cunning soul, barred from Heaven but denied by Hell because of a bargain he made with Satan. Thus forced to wander Earth eternally, he took hellfire and put it in a turnip: thus were born Jack-O-Lanterns. #FolkloreSunday #SpookySunday

🖼️: J. Ukropina

Give me stone bestiaries. Give me lithic libraries of strangeness. Let me look up and see impossible animals, a telling of folklore above me. May carvings roar their stories as part of the transmission of the living lore. – #CLNolan #FolkloreSunday

The first known example of apple bobbing comes from Celto-Romano fusion, combining the two cultures and spreading accordingly. A maiden who placed a bobbed apple under her pillow would dream of her future lover. #FolkloreSunday

#FolkloreSunday: Barmbrack, the Irish #Halloween cake, and the meanings behind traditional items in fortune-telling. #Celtic
Source: www.irishstar.com/culture/nost...

#FolkloreSunday: Barmbrack, the Irish #Halloween cake, and the meanings behind traditional items in fortune-telling. #Celtic
Source: https://www.irishstar.com/culture/nostalgia/barmbrack-meanings-behind-traditional-items-31117488

Stolen looks are nice in chapels
Stolen, stolen, be your apples.
When to bed the world are bobbing
Then's the time for orchard-robbing;
Yet the fruit were scarce worth peeling
Were it not for stealing, stealing.
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1/2Song of Fairies Robbing an Orchard
We, the Fairies, blithe & antic
Of dimensions not gigantic
Though the moonshine mostly keep us
Oft in orchards frisk & peep us.
Stolen sweets are always sweeter
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2/2 With snapping for apples, an apple was hung on a string and set to swinging. The player would have to bite it with hands tied behind his/her back. The winner would peel the apple to see the initial in the peel.
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1/2 Bobbing for apples, or snapping for apples, was a divinatory game as well. Initials were carved in the apples that would determine your future love interest.
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2/2 Another says to cut an apple in 9 pieces & go into a dark room with a mirror. Eat the apple looking into the mirror, but throw the 9th over your shoulder to make the face of your love appear. redbubble.com/shop/ap/3589... #FolkloreSunday #art #folklore #homedecor #Halloween #gifts

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#FolkloreSunday The Wild Hunt is a ghostly procession of hunters tearing through the sky. Witnessing this hunt is a bad omen: it predicts disaster or death. People who encounter the Hunt risk abduction to the fairy realm.
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BEWARE of FAIRY FOOD on #HALLOWEEN It is transformed by their use of GLAMOUR & is likely made up of weeds or rotten fruit. Fairies themselves prefer stalks of heather & the milk of red deer. 🎨Fairy Banquet: Rackham #FolkloreSunday

Sunday

#AncientSiteSunday
#CeilingsonSunday
#FolkloreSunday
#SaxonSunday
#SevenOnSunday
#ShakespeareSunday
#ShieldSunday
#SignsOnSunday or #SundaySigns
#SilentSunday
#skysunday
#SpoliaSunday
#StainedGlassSunday
#StandingStoneSunday

Beautiful but deadly, wolfsbane (Aconitum napellus), or monkshood, is steeped in werewolf lore. Said to repel werewolves or break the curse of lycanthropy, it also appeared in recipes for witches’ ointments believed to grant powers of flight and transformation. #FolkloreSunday